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Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle is a leading virtual learning environment for your online course. This book incorporates the principles of instructional design, showing you how to apply them to your Moodle courses. With this guidance, you will develop and deploy better courses, content, and assessments than ever. This book will guide you as you learn how to build and incorporate many different types of course materials and dynamic activities. You will learn how to improve the structure and presentation of resources, activities, and assessments. All this will help you to create better for self-led courses, instructor-led courses, and courses for collaborative groups. The use of multimedia features to enhance your Moodle courses is also explained in this book. Our goal is to encourage creativity, and the free MoodleCloud hosting option is an ideal place for teachers, students, trainers, and administrators to jump in and play with all the new features, which include powerful new plug-ins, new resources, and activities. Moodle can be your sandbox as well as your castle of learning! With this book, you will build learning experiences that will last your learners’ lifetimes.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Course-level configuration

Now that you've configured your courses at the site level, let's set up a project-based course.

Course settings

First, we will add a course. Remember that we learned how to do that in Chapter 1, Preparing to Build an Exemplary Moodle Course, in the Site administration menu, where you can add a course by creating it within one of the categories you've created.

In the Site administration menu, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Manage courses and categories. The Course and category management page appears, displaying the Course categories list as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Now, click on a category and then select Create new course.
  2. On the Edit course settings page, enter...